Day changed to 2025-05-01
[18:20] sstacks: greetings
Day changed to 2025-05-06
[15:07] caai: hello jw: could you remind where the host file is located to change the value of fblserver?
[15:07] caai: tigo went down for about 9 hours and my ip address changed. i thought the setting was in /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, /etc/hostname, or /etc/hosts, but i see no configurations in any of those files ....
[15:28] jfw: caai: /etc/hosts would be the global configuration (ie for all applications on the system) but we put it in ~/.ssh/config probably because there were some other settings required there already
[15:37] caai: found it. excellent. danke
Day changed to 2025-05-09
[15:42] jfw: http://jfxpt.com/2025/jwrd-logs-for-Apr-2025/#14501 - panama's been relatively well behaved, just some lesser protests afoot about a minor sounding social [in]security reform
[15:42] sourcerer: 2025-04-29 20:02:46 (#jwrd) whaack: how's Panama? Dorion: it's looking unlikely for me to come in early June. Possibly we could meet in upstate New York / Vermont sometime over the summer, or when you get back to Panama.
[16:05] jfw: http://jfxpt.com/2025/jwrd-logs-for-Apr-2025/#14507 - the republican-gpg effort didn't get off the ground as far as usable results; I suppose it morphed into the FFA project on Stan's table going for (one selection of) ideals, and EuCrypt/VaMP on Diana's bringing for instance http://ossasepia.com/2021/08/08/begin-non-pgp-message/
[16:05] sourcerer: 2025-04-30 07:10:05 (#jwrd) lru: http://trilema.com/2015/the-pgp-w-mode/ - did anyone ever implement this, whether added to gpg, or as a standalone pipe / filter?
[16:08] jfw: looking at the proposal now I'm not sure how the "pass as plain text" would hold up in light of those language models currently running rampant - though I'm not sure I've grasped the larger social/political aims
Day changed to 2025-05-10
[02:44] lru: jfw: yeah, it doesn't look like it would pass the readable text test, just the rough format of it
Day changed to 2025-05-14
[21:02] sstacks: greetings
[21:33] jfw: hey sstacks what's going on?
[21:39] sstacks: Good jfw. Just came back from traveling with family. We were at Republica Dominicana.
[21:40] sstacks: How you been? What's new?
[21:42] jfw: mostly a lot of electronics theory & practice along with preparing the VPS hosting service
[21:42] jfw: life's good
[21:43] jfw: you were having trouble with your EdgeRouter, right? did you still want to bring it over for a look?
[21:46] jfw: I also got some new & rennovated computers in service to consolidate and replace failing ones, which involved some software wrangling; most exciting is I got the Eulora2 client to work on a recent (x)ubuntu
[21:54] sstacks: wow, congratulations for the Eulora2 achievement. Great. When I get my hardware over your place you talk me more about it
[21:55] sstacks: We need to coordinate it. What day and time frame is best for you?
[21:56] jfw: tomorrow's probably not the best but any time Friday is free so far
[21:57] sstacks: What are general thoughts about Bitcoin Core promoting “negotiations†with NFTers and garbage on mempool, eliminating historical filters
[21:58] sstacks: Most probably next week, as this week is very difficult for me as well since im catching up on couple of things. But we could schedule to make it happen
[21:59] jfw: 'bitcoin core' has no credibility around here so I don't spend much time studying their spew, but dunno, what do you think they're up to?
[22:00] jfw: they think ethereum is cool and hope some of it can rub off on them?
[22:01] jfw: how's next wednesday for a visit, then? the new girl nekoluce should be around too
[22:02] sstacks: So it seems they are aligning progressively with shtcoin culture promoting the NFTs and ordinals stuff. They dont want to update spam filters and i think they want to eliminate current ones.
[22:02] sstacks: Great. What time is good?
[22:03] jfw: maybe 11am to spare you the worse afternoon traffic?
[22:04] jfw: fwiw, bitcoind's -minrelaytxfee is about the only spam filter I ever needed there
[22:05] jfw: bring your node too and I can check up on it
[22:06] nekoluce: hello :D
[22:13] sstacks: great bro. perfect time indeed.
[22:13] sstacks: you guys been feeding your blogs?
[22:21] jfw: occasionally at best
[22:24] jfw: sstacks: confirmed for 11am wednesday the 21st, then.
[23:05] sstacks: jfw: Is there's chance it could be at 1130am?
[23:06] jfw: sstacks: sure
[23:07] sstacks: jfw: thx. Ill see you then
[23:07] jfw: great
Day changed to 2025-05-17
[13:34] jfw: dorion: I spent almost all of yesterday reading about voltage regulation & power conversion, covering the basics of linear regulators and just scratching the surface of switching power supplies. the local shop has only the very bare basics from the first category, according to their pdf chip catalog (which nekoluce helped me extract into clean csv)
[13:35] jfw: and not sure yet about the second category, which is what I'd need to create the 12V step-up for high-voltage chip programming
[13:36] jfw: unless I stacked up a ton of AAA batteries or something and used linears.
[13:51] jfw: in a nutshell, linear regulators provide the most "clean" power supply but can only reduce the voltage, and dissipate power in their drive transistor to do it; and unless they're "low dropout" (LDO) they require a few volts of headroom between input and output voltage. switchers are more recent tech, they can produce just about any desired voltage by on/off "pumping" action and smooth out the
[13:51] jfw: output as best they can. this makes them highly efficient and so they're found ~everywhere now, but they produce high-frequency noise (not of the entropic sort, more like a whining or screeching in the ultrasonic)
[13:55] jfw: in this light, I also got better acquainted with the FG's power supply circuitry.
[13:59] jfw: one change I'd try to make, if battery operation is indeed desirable, is to use bigger LDOs because the ones it uses specify a maximum input of 5.5V.
[14:23] jfw: ooh, there *are* off-the-shelf 12V batteries, and my PIC12F6XX seems to specify 10-13V allowed for the programming voltage, so I might get away without further regulation
[14:23] jfw: 23A and 27A for instance
Day changed to 2025-05-18
[16:43] jfw: it even turned out I already had a 23A battery, as surplus from fixing a wireless doorbell. I soldered on leads and it puts out a nice 12.72V.
[16:46] jfw: then I swung back to analog studies with transistor amplifiers, and upgraded my voltage-controlled LED current source to get the lights pulsing to the computer's sound output.
[16:48] jfw: "child's play" at this point but made a fun break from the heavy theory.
Day changed to 2025-05-20
[16:30] sstacks: hey
[16:42] jfw: *waves*
[17:17] sstacks: jfw: just curious, do you have power cords available for hardware im taking? I got mine heavily tubed across my desktop. If you dont i will pull em out np
[17:17] jfw: sstacks: sure, I can provide power cords.
[17:18] sstacks: thanks.. im taking both laptops and the edgerouter
[17:18] sstacks: i might need something else?
[17:19] jfw: maybe trng if you'd like me to check up on its health
[17:35] sstacks: yes, great
Day changed to 2025-05-21
[02:20] sstacks: jfw: Can you send me your address? Maybe email or sms
[19:23] sstacks: thanks jfw!
[21:15] jfw: cheers sstacks. ftr, the upshot was the machines all looked fine, the symptom on the router was that it had been making beeping sounds (I didn't even know it had a beeper), so far one suspicion is a power/wiring/UPS issue but if it happens again I could make a house call
[18:20] sstacks: greetings
Day changed to 2025-05-06
[15:07] caai: hello jw: could you remind where the host file is located to change the value of fblserver?
[15:07] caai: tigo went down for about 9 hours and my ip address changed. i thought the setting was in /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, /etc/hostname, or /etc/hosts, but i see no configurations in any of those files ....
[15:28] jfw: caai: /etc/hosts would be the global configuration (ie for all applications on the system) but we put it in ~/.ssh/config probably because there were some other settings required there already
[15:37] caai: found it. excellent. danke
Day changed to 2025-05-09
[15:42] jfw: http://jfxpt.com/2025/jwrd-logs-for-Apr-2025/#14501 - panama's been relatively well behaved, just some lesser protests afoot about a minor sounding social [in]security reform
[15:42] sourcerer: 2025-04-29 20:02:46 (#jwrd) whaack: how's Panama? Dorion: it's looking unlikely for me to come in early June. Possibly we could meet in upstate New York / Vermont sometime over the summer, or when you get back to Panama.
[16:05] jfw: http://jfxpt.com/2025/jwrd-logs-for-Apr-2025/#14507 - the republican-gpg effort didn't get off the ground as far as usable results; I suppose it morphed into the FFA project on Stan's table going for (one selection of) ideals, and EuCrypt/VaMP on Diana's bringing for instance http://ossasepia.com/2021/08/08/begin-non-pgp-message/
[16:05] sourcerer: 2025-04-30 07:10:05 (#jwrd) lru: http://trilema.com/2015/the-pgp-w-mode/ - did anyone ever implement this, whether added to gpg, or as a standalone pipe / filter?
[16:08] jfw: looking at the proposal now I'm not sure how the "pass as plain text" would hold up in light of those language models currently running rampant - though I'm not sure I've grasped the larger social/political aims
Day changed to 2025-05-10
[02:44] lru: jfw: yeah, it doesn't look like it would pass the readable text test, just the rough format of it
Day changed to 2025-05-14
[21:02] sstacks: greetings
[21:33] jfw: hey sstacks what's going on?
[21:39] sstacks: Good jfw. Just came back from traveling with family. We were at Republica Dominicana.
[21:40] sstacks: How you been? What's new?
[21:42] jfw: mostly a lot of electronics theory & practice along with preparing the VPS hosting service
[21:42] jfw: life's good
[21:43] jfw: you were having trouble with your EdgeRouter, right? did you still want to bring it over for a look?
[21:46] jfw: I also got some new & rennovated computers in service to consolidate and replace failing ones, which involved some software wrangling; most exciting is I got the Eulora2 client to work on a recent (x)ubuntu
[21:54] sstacks: wow, congratulations for the Eulora2 achievement. Great. When I get my hardware over your place you talk me more about it
[21:55] sstacks: We need to coordinate it. What day and time frame is best for you?
[21:56] jfw: tomorrow's probably not the best but any time Friday is free so far
[21:57] sstacks: What are general thoughts about Bitcoin Core promoting “negotiations†with NFTers and garbage on mempool, eliminating historical filters
[21:58] sstacks: Most probably next week, as this week is very difficult for me as well since im catching up on couple of things. But we could schedule to make it happen
[21:59] jfw: 'bitcoin core' has no credibility around here so I don't spend much time studying their spew, but dunno, what do you think they're up to?
[22:00] jfw: they think ethereum is cool and hope some of it can rub off on them?
[22:01] jfw: how's next wednesday for a visit, then? the new girl nekoluce should be around too
[22:02] sstacks: So it seems they are aligning progressively with shtcoin culture promoting the NFTs and ordinals stuff. They dont want to update spam filters and i think they want to eliminate current ones.
[22:02] sstacks: Great. What time is good?
[22:03] jfw: maybe 11am to spare you the worse afternoon traffic?
[22:04] jfw: fwiw, bitcoind's -minrelaytxfee is about the only spam filter I ever needed there
[22:05] jfw: bring your node too and I can check up on it
[22:06] nekoluce: hello :D
[22:13] sstacks: great bro. perfect time indeed.
[22:13] sstacks: you guys been feeding your blogs?
[22:21] jfw: occasionally at best
[22:24] jfw: sstacks: confirmed for 11am wednesday the 21st, then.
[23:05] sstacks: jfw: Is there's chance it could be at 1130am?
[23:06] jfw: sstacks: sure
[23:07] sstacks: jfw: thx. Ill see you then
[23:07] jfw: great
Day changed to 2025-05-17
[13:34] jfw: dorion: I spent almost all of yesterday reading about voltage regulation & power conversion, covering the basics of linear regulators and just scratching the surface of switching power supplies. the local shop has only the very bare basics from the first category, according to their pdf chip catalog (which nekoluce helped me extract into clean csv)
[13:35] jfw: and not sure yet about the second category, which is what I'd need to create the 12V step-up for high-voltage chip programming
[13:36] jfw: unless I stacked up a ton of AAA batteries or something and used linears.
[13:51] jfw: in a nutshell, linear regulators provide the most "clean" power supply but can only reduce the voltage, and dissipate power in their drive transistor to do it; and unless they're "low dropout" (LDO) they require a few volts of headroom between input and output voltage. switchers are more recent tech, they can produce just about any desired voltage by on/off "pumping" action and smooth out the
[13:51] jfw: output as best they can. this makes them highly efficient and so they're found ~everywhere now, but they produce high-frequency noise (not of the entropic sort, more like a whining or screeching in the ultrasonic)
[13:55] jfw: in this light, I also got better acquainted with the FG's power supply circuitry.
[13:59] jfw: one change I'd try to make, if battery operation is indeed desirable, is to use bigger LDOs because the ones it uses specify a maximum input of 5.5V.
[14:23] jfw: ooh, there *are* off-the-shelf 12V batteries, and my PIC12F6XX seems to specify 10-13V allowed for the programming voltage, so I might get away without further regulation
[14:23] jfw: 23A and 27A for instance
Day changed to 2025-05-18
[16:43] jfw: it even turned out I already had a 23A battery, as surplus from fixing a wireless doorbell. I soldered on leads and it puts out a nice 12.72V.
[16:46] jfw: then I swung back to analog studies with transistor amplifiers, and upgraded my voltage-controlled LED current source to get the lights pulsing to the computer's sound output.
[16:48] jfw: "child's play" at this point but made a fun break from the heavy theory.
Day changed to 2025-05-20
[16:30] sstacks: hey
[16:42] jfw: *waves*
[17:17] sstacks: jfw: just curious, do you have power cords available for hardware im taking? I got mine heavily tubed across my desktop. If you dont i will pull em out np
[17:17] jfw: sstacks: sure, I can provide power cords.
[17:18] sstacks: thanks.. im taking both laptops and the edgerouter
[17:18] sstacks: i might need something else?
[17:19] jfw: maybe trng if you'd like me to check up on its health
[17:35] sstacks: yes, great
Day changed to 2025-05-21
[02:20] sstacks: jfw: Can you send me your address? Maybe email or sms
[19:23] sstacks: thanks jfw!
[21:15] jfw: cheers sstacks. ftr, the upshot was the machines all looked fine, the symptom on the router was that it had been making beeping sounds (I didn't even know it had a beeper), so far one suspicion is a power/wiring/UPS issue but if it happens again I could make a house call